Fall 2025 SOWK 486w Class 11 Weekly Email
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Unit Introduction and What You Will Learn
Week 11 continues our work in Week 10 Social Work Planning. This week, we will focus on cognitive distortions and how to address them, primarily in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). We will also examine crisis planning. The agenda is as follows:
- Talk about cognitive distortions and cognitive restructuring
- Practice with planning
- Documenting our plans
- The planning process in crisis
Learning Objectives include
- Identify and challenge common cognitive distortions.
- Apply a structured goal formulation process to client scenarios.
- Develop and document client treatment plans and progress notes.
- Utilize an 8-step crisis intervention model to assess, plan, and respond to client needs.
Unit Assignments
Attend Class
Unit Resources
We will watch a short talk by Burns (2014) during class; it’s a pretty powerful story. If you are interested in finding it later, you can see it at Feeling good - David Burns - TEDxReno. There are also handouts, Fixing Cognitive Distortions and the Goal Planning and Progress Note that we will use during class activities.
All of the presentations for this class can be found at https://presentations.jacobrcampbell.com. This week’s slides are Fall 2025 SOWK 486w Week 11 - Lab Day - Planning and Implementing Change-Oriented Strategies.
The Lecture Videos tab in the MyHeritage course is where you will be able to find class recordings. The video this week is at [Fall 2025 SOWK 486w Week 11]().
Reference
TEDx Talks. (2014). Feeling good - David Burns - TEDxReno [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/H1T5uMeYv9Q
To-Do List
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